Day: December 18, 2017

After spending 31 years in a pit box, one NASCAR crew chief is walking away from the track. It was recently announced that Tony Gibson wouldn’t be returning as crew chief for Kyle Busch and the No. 41 car, but he will remain with Stewart-Haas in a different role, according…

State Rep. Mark Pody (R-Lebanon), the Republican nominee in Tuesday’s special election in Tennessee’s 17th State Senate District, is heavily favored to defeat the Democratic nominee Mary Alice Carfi in the traditionally conservative district.. The seat was vacated by longtime incumbent State Senator Mae Beavers (R-Mt. Juliet), who resigned the…

Songwriter Lee Thomas Miller dropped out of the 7th Congressional District race on Monday, one month and four days after announcing his candidacy for the Republican nomination. “I looked forward to this race and the opportunity to change things that I think are broken. But as a husband and father…

For the second year in a row, President Donald Trump and his conservative evangelical supporters topped the list of the 10 most important religion news stories of the year as compiled by the country’s largest organization of religion journalists. These so-called Trumpvangelicals are enjoying unprecedented access to the Oval Office…

Sen. Bernard Sanders said Sunday that corporate taxes would “absolutely” go back up if Democrats retake the Senate in 2018. “I think we’re going to take a very hard look at this entire tax bill and make it a tax bill that works for the middle class and working families,…

Wealthy New York City elites are preparing to flee the state because the Republican tax bill is going to make them face the full brunt of Mayor Bill de Blasio and Democratic state leadership’s tax rates. “Everybody I speak to brings this up. Every NYC resident I speak to asks…

by Richard Ebeling Those who speak about being on the “right side of history” have, knowingly or not, adopted a central element in Karl Marx’s analysis of capitalism: the idea that the capitalist system follows a particular course of historical development that is open to scientific explanation and prediction,…

Last week during an address at the White House President Trump likened his tax plan to “the tax cut that John F. Kennedy proposed 55 years ago.” This elicited some howls of protest from Mr. Trump’s liberal critics who say it’s historically inaccurate to compare the Trump plan to JFK’s.

Granting legal status to young illegal immigrants under the DREAM Act would add $25.9 billion to the deficit over the next 10 years, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) reported on Friday. The extra burden on taxpayers mainly is due to increased health insurance costs and spending associated with programs that…

MSNBC host Stephanie Ruhl blamed Republicans Friday for allowing a federal children’s health program to expire, repeating a claim that has reverberated across the Internet and national media in recent days. The Washington Post Fact Checker earlier this week for making a similar claim.